Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800
By: Ruth H. Bloch.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Women -- United States -- History; Women colonists -- United States -- History; Sex role -- United States -- History; Ethics -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Overviews. Theory : culturalist critique of feminist theory (1993). History : untangling the roots of modern sex roles₃ (1978); title: Colonial transitions. Revaluing motherhood : American feminine ideals in transition : the rise of the moral mother, 1785-1815 (1978). Regulating courtship : women and the law of courtship in eighteenth century America (2001). Utilitarian vs. evangelical perspectives : women, love, and virtue in the thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993); title: Revolutionary synthesis. Religion and sentimentalism : religion, literary sentimentalism, and popular revolutionary ideology (1994). Republican virtue : the gendered meanings of virtue in revolutionary America (1987). Public/private : gender and the public/private dichotomy in revolutionary thought.